Economic sanctions are a stupid idea that just cost Americans jobs, and never have any impact on the targeted country other than to cause their ordinary citizens needless suffering, and turn them into a lasting enemy.
If we're really 'tough' about it, we can create groups who are willing to sacrifice their own lives to kill Americans while hoping to make a point with the international community.

Does MoJo actually FAVOR such confrontational, beligerent behavior, just because a Democrat in the Senate says they should??

However skeptical you want to be about the motives of the Republicans, I'm quite glad to see them taking this stance.

I have personally met Iranians who work for Halliburton. I use to do business in a town called Newark in England. Just up the road was a training facility for Halliburton. They would bring people in there from all over the world for training. Half of the people in my hotel worked for them. I have bet Yanks, Russians, Iranians, Saudis etc...
All nice folks, hard workers, love their jobs, love the money, love the travel...
The hotel owner loved it too. She said, "Yea. We do a lot for them. Especially now because it is harder to get people into the States."
I said, "Like the Iranians and Saudis?"
She replied, "Especially the Iranians and Saudis"

Yea...cause bombing a country into oblivion never affects the "regular" citizenry. Republicans ARE hypocrites. You can't have it both ways. I actually like the Iranian people and think they have a right to jobs, but they also have a right to not be blown to bits. So, economic sanctions = BAD; terroristic bombing = GOOD in Republican-world? Give me a break. We are violating the non-proliferation agreement as I type, for a weapon that will NEVER be used as defense, but as OFFENSE. We should change the name of the department to the Department of Offense.

This shows that power of the Jews in the Democratic Party. Per London review of books, 23 march 2006
The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. "Thanks in part to the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections, the Lobby also has significant leverage over the executive branch. Although they make up fewer than 3 per cent of the population, they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates ‘depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 per cent of the money’. And because Jewish voters have high turn-out rates and are concentrated in key states like California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, presidential candidates go to great lengths not to antagonise them."

Carter in his book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" , pg 209, "...(I)n the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned, voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media..." In other words, Zionists dominate the US media. "At the same time, political leaders and news media in Europe are highly critical of Israeli policies, affecting public attitudes." "Citizens in 15 European nations, indicate that Israel was considered to be the top threat to world peace."

The GOP has become a rural, overwhelmingly Christian and Southern party. It is not populated by urban ethnics who, even if they aren't Jewish, understand Jews' cultural references and sensibilities...
In short, the Republicans are not just our kind of people, many Jews say. They don't sound like us, they don't talk like us and they don't understand us. Unless and until that changes, Jews likely will likely be voting overwhelmingly Democratic for years to come because we are not going to change to be Christian like them.

I went to the JTL, Global news service for Jewish people, this is another of their articles, "Sen. Barack Obama surrounds himself with a number of individuals and advisors1 who are hostile to Israel and American Jews. They include Zbigniew Brzezinski, General Tony McPeak, Robert Malley and former Congressman David Bonior.2 All are known either for their anti-Israel views or their pro-Arab views – or both.
Brzezinski is well known for his aggressive dislike of Israel, and has been an ardent foe of Israel for more than three decades. As recently as 2006, he placed exclusive blame on Israel for the war in Lebanon, even making the outrageous claim that “I think what the Israelis are doing in Lebanon is, in effect, the killing of hostages.”3
Obama’s top military advisor McPeak told a newspaper that he believes Jews in Miami and New York are the obstacles to peace in the Middle East.4
Malley, a Palestinian apologist, invented and propagated the false claim that the 2000 Camp David summit failed because Israel wasn’t serious about giving the Palestinians a state.5
And former U.S. Rep. Bonior refused to stand by Israel while in Congress, after repeated terrorist attacks, and was known as a stalwart opponent to Israel.6
For 20 years, Obama was part of the anti-American, anti-Semitic Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church. In fact, Obama called him his “sounding board.”7 After intense criticism of their relationship, Obama distanced himself from Wright.
Sen. Barack Obama has surrounded himself with individuals whose anti-Israel views are so dangerous, naïve and reckless that it raises serious questions about his judgement. "

Please don't vote for the anti-Semite.

We should change the name of the department to the Department of Offense.

I'd rather see us go back to the name the Founding Fathers assigned to this Cabinet Department.

Not mincing words, they called it what it is: The War Department.

Long about 1947, Harry Truman decided we weren't really a War-Like nation, did some re-shuffling and named it the Department of Defense. Then of course, within three years the "Defense" department was once again engaged in a War, in Korea.

But, hey..., we're STILL not a War-Like nation, since our country has not made a real, Constitutional declaration of War since 1942.

Per JTL)"The American Jewish Committee survey published Thursday shows the Democratic presidential nominee still hovering around 57 percent among Jewish voters.If Obama’s figure holds, he would finish about 15 points behind the 75 percent of the Jewish vote that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) won in 2004, according to exit polls."

This proves that racism is alive and well in the Jewish community. This is shamefull. This is not surprising. Dr. Raphael discusses the central role of the Jews in the New World commerce and the African slave trade (pp. 23-25Jews and Judaism in the United States Jews and Judaism in the United States
pp. 14, 23-25.
"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.”

"This was no less true on the North American mainland, where during the eighteenth century Jews participated in the 'triangular trade' that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies and there exchanged them for molasses, which in turn was taken to New England and converted into rum for sale in Africa. Isaac Da Costa of Charleston in the 1750's, David Franks of Philadelphia in the 1760's, and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760's and early 1770's dominated Jewish slave trading on the American continent." E.g. Judah P. Benjamin - Secretary of State - US Confederacy

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else.

This is the idea behind foreign policy.

P.J. O'Rourke